All multi-story apartments use the modern design motif. These should be easier to follow along with, as they were labelled from south to north. Ot is clad in green siding and has 4 three-bedroom units, and Pt is clad in red siding and has 5 three-bedroom units. Lastly, Ot and Pt are the same basic design, except Pt has one more unit in the middle. Nt is the same as It, but with one less three-bedroom in the middle, resulting in a total of six units – three stacked flat two-bedroom units, two three-bedrooms, and one four-bedroom unit. It-1 and It-2 are almost the same as the Ht’s, but the end unit is a bit larger, resulting 4-bedrooms instead of three (for a unit total per building of 3 2-bedrooms stacked, 3 3-bedrooms, 1 4-bedroom). They are separated by the West Sylvan Mews (and the small street next to the Community Center is called East Sylvan Mews). Ht-1 and Ht-2 appear to be 7 units each – 4 3-bedrooms, 3 2-bedrooms in a stacked flat format. The three-bedrooms lack a rear bedroom on the top floor. Jt-1 and Jt-2 have 11 units apiece – 3 2-bedroom stacked units on each end of the string for a total of 6 2-bedroom units, and 3 three-bedroom and 2 four-bedroom units are wedged in between. Then there are strings that a mixture of setbacks and no setbacks. Kt-1 and Kt-2 ( Kt-1 shown in the render above) have three stacked flat 2-bedrooms on each end of the townhouse string (the first floor is one 2-bedroom unit, and the other two-bedrooms are stacked over it), and 4 four-bedroom units in the middle, for ten units each. These are 4-bedroom units, like Ct (4 units), Ft (6 units) and Mt (6 units). They are all three-bedroom units.įive of the modern strings have no garage and full-length top floors. This includes Bt (4 units) and Lt (5 units). Two of the modern townhouse units have no garages and large full-length setbacks on their third floors. At is 4 units, Dt is 5 units, Et is 6 units, and the Gt’s are 7 units each. The ones with integrated garages ( At, Dt, Et, Gt1/2’s) are all 3-bedroom units. Modern townhouse strings At, Dt, Et, Gt-1 and Gt-2 take advantage of the site’s slope to employ rear garages tucked into the hillside. All townhouses are 2.5-3 stories in height. The more traditional townhouse strings ( Ht’s, It’s, Nt, Ot, Pt) are finished with fiber cement siding and trim boards. The modern-looking townhouses use a brick veneer, light and dark fiber cement panels and lap siding, cast stone accents and wood canopies, along with concrete foundations and stairs. The more traditional-looking Ht-1 and Ht-2, and It-1 and It-2 strings are mirror images of their same-lettered counterpart. The Gt’s, Jt’s, and Kt’s are near-identical twins exception for unit layout and building elevation steps to accommodate slopes. The color coding is for easy reference.Įach uniquely-lettered string is its own design. Counting them all off, there’s At, Bt, Ct, Dt, Et, Ft, Gt-1, Gt-2, Ht-1, Ht-2, It-1 and It-2, Jt-1 and Jt-2, Kt-1 and Kt-2, Lt, Mt, Nt, Ot, and Pt. Then there are the townhouses, to be covered in detail in the next section. In short, five multi-story buildings, B, C, D, E, and F. “A” was the multi-story building along Mitchell Avenue that was removed late in the planning process. Notably, there is no apartment building “A”. The townhouses along Mitchell have been renamed, but otherwise everything else is the same. Here is the more accurate but less attractive site plan. The knoll between apartment buildings D, E and F is the location of the Mitchell family cemetery plot, last active in the 1850s. The bus stop/food truck area, unlabeled here, is the intersection of Maple Avenue and Veterans’ Way. The overlook is a natural area at one of the highest elevations of the property, and the community garden is at the turn of James Lane. The childrens’ play area is located at the intersection of James Lane (the north-south road) and Lena Street (the east-west road). However, this is the easiest diagram to follow, and highlights some of the landscaping features of the project. The pretty version of the site plan, from STREAM Collaborative, has most of the buildings pretty clearly labeled, but is a little outdated – the townhouses along Mitchell were added late in the process, and were not labelled here. The building elevations for each structure can be found in Building Set Plans 1-3, on the town of Ithaca’s website here. Unlike most projects, Maplewood is basically an entire new neighborhood – there are five large apartment buildings, 21 townhouse strings, and the community center, for a grand total of twenty-seven buildings.
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